Description:
This text is a short Middle Persian narrative poem from the late Sasanian era. It primarily delves into Ahura Mazda’s response to Zoroaster’s inquiry about the significance of the day Hordād in the month Frawardīn, intertwining both historical and prophetic events linked to this day. This piece, likely intended for oral recitation, interweaves ancient myths with traditional priestly practices, marking its uniqueness in Middle Persian literature.
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Bibliography:
_ Daryee, Touraj. “Khosrow II in the Pahlavi Text Māh ī Frawardīn rōz ī Hordād.” Orpheus Noster 11, 4 (2019): 11-18. (Link)
– Gheiby, Bijan. Twelve Ancient Treatises: Translation and Commentary. Bielefeld: Nemudar, 2015.
– Grenet, Frantz. “The Pahlavi text Māh ī Frawardīn rōz ī Hordād : a source of some passages of Bīrūnī’s Chronology.” In Exegisti monumenta. Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams, edited by Werner Sundermann, Almut Hintze and François de Blois, 161-170. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009. (Link)